Life after death is addressed in all of the world's major religions. The realms traveled by deceased spirits have been mapped by most of them, with the interesting exception of Christianity. Yet even the Christians have a notoriously powerful afterlife. Despite this unusual religion, the others have mystical sects that describe a cosmology governed by different frequencies of universal vibration.
Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism teach of the vibrations as real places (they call them planes or realms). In Hinduism, they are specifically called lokas. There are 14 of them that occupy a space in a hierarchy of spiritual attainment. On a map of the lokas, Earth is at the center, with seven planes extending above and below in each direction. The higher planes concern spiritual development while the lower ones concern material struggles. Each plane is a step higher and lower on a soul's spiritual journey, based on their karma. We, the souls on Earth, are thought to enter them after we die. We may move higher or lower on them depending on what we've learned. On Earth, it is possible to access the various lokas by tuning into its vibration during the practice of meditation, but only for those who are sensitive to it.
In Buddhism the realms are also called lokas, but they are also referred to as jhanas, or pure lands. The branches of Buddhism differ on the number of lokas that can be accessed, ranging from 10-31. Note that different beings occupy the planes, based on the vibration of their spirits. Lower demonic entities, or "Asuras" occupy the lower planes, while higher angelic entities or "Devas" occupy the higher ones. We on Earth typically occupy the middle plane.
In Judaism, the Kabbalah sect has a different version of this same teaching. There are ten sephirot "planes" that distribute the flow of light through realms of existence. This flow represents everything that happens in the world; each change can be mapped on the Tree of Life, representing sephirot connected by the realms. It is used to guide the Jewish mystic on their journey to understand the interconnectedness of all existence. And like the eastern traditions, each plane can be accessed through meditation, particularly by using sound and not just vibration.
Sufism from Islam is another extension of it. Sufi practice aims to elevate consciousness by meditation to higher planes of vibration. The planes are described as different qualities of light that arise from these vibrational rates. Interestingly, there is thought to be an angelic plane where beings reside between earth and the higher realms; and a demonic plane occupied by "jinns" that sometimes harass humans.
While these religions all have an obscure sect that has mapped these cosmic realms, I have never stumbled on it reading about Christian philosophy, which is interesting because the idea of "angels watching over us" most resonates in that religion. To me, Christianity is like a "religion for dummies". It abandoned the Gnostic cosmology for a simpler heaven and hell, angels and demons narrative. The complex cosmologies of other religions were deemed heretical. Presumably this helped to spread its appeal, as it invited people ignorant about metaphysics for a more comforting emotional interpretation of spirituality.
Without a map, the afterworld of Christianity was more difficult to navigate. It wasn't until the poet Dante in the 14th century, who came closest to mapping one for Christians with his Divine Comedy. With the nine circles of Hell in the Inferno below, Earth and Purgatory in between, and the nine circles Paradise above, Dante's cosmology resonated the most with people who rejected the planes of consciousness in favor of literal places. But it was the rejection of Gnostic cosmology in the first place that allowed such a reimagining to change the landscape of the afterlife for Christians. Vibration, meditation, and reincarnation were less understood than a cosmic struggle between good and evil.
Regardless, every religion teaches that angels and demons do occupy realms beyond the physical one on Earth; that they can communicate with us through interplanar travel; and that we can access these planes if we try hard enough. Even lesser religions address these abilities, particularly indigenous ones involving Shamanism, a broad term for the practice of communicating with spirits. Most tribal rituals that summon spirits involve the same kind of chants or mantras that major religions aim to simulate their vibration on the physical plane. Thus, when a philosopher considers all the similarities in cosmology and ritual between cultures, from every corner of the world, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence to support the belief of an afterlife.
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